Red Hat's IoT architect Peter Robinson talks about a lean new Fedora
Meet Fedora IoT
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Fedora enters the IoT space with a lean new distro with atomic updates.
Fedora holds a special place in my digital life. It was the distribution that introduced me to the world of Linux. It is also the distribution used by Linus Torvalds himself.
Fedora is a Red Hat sponsored, community driven project that's upstream to Red Hat's commercial line of products in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) family. As Red Hat is diversifying the RHEL portfolio to handle different use cases, Fedora is also branching out to keep up with its commercial cousin. The Fedora distribution now has three editions – workstation, server, and cloud. The fourth edition is in the works.
During the Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit North America 2018 (Portland), I sat down with Peter Robinson, principal IoT architect at Red Hat, who is conceptualizing the fourth member of the Fedora family.
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